Mulher de viração, mulher-dama, garota de programa, profissionais do sexo: atuações e enfrentamentos na Praça Floriano Peixoto

Abstract

This paper analyzes the life story from prostitutes’ women at Santo Amaro region and their daily confrontation, concluding if those confrontations are result from prostitution or victimization from gender, race and social class matters. To do so, it was needed to briefly study the history Sao Paulo city prostitution, since second half of XIX century through the eighties, exposing how this activity was done at those phases. As well as, to understand the relation between exploitation and prostitution, considering feminism positioning, inside a capitalist system context, based on prostitution activity at Floriano Peixoto Square, Santo Amaro region. Facing it, it is fundamental to analyze women life story that has prostitution as activity, at region already mentioned, to comprehend their main daily confrontation